⁷ When the Israelites along the valley and those across the Jordan saw that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and fled. And the Philistines came and occupied them.

⁶ When the Israelites saw that their situation was critical and that their army was hard pressed, they hid^(A) in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in pits and cisterns.^(B)

² Because the power of Midian was so oppressive,^(A) the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves^(B) and strongholds.^(C)

³³ A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression^(A) all your days.^(B)

³⁶ “‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf^(A) will put them to flight.^(B) They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.^(C)

³² I myself will lay waste the land,^(A) so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.^(B)